"It is only with the heart that..." - Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
More by Antoine De Saint Exupery
“There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.”
“Straight ahead you can't go very far.”
“I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.”
More on Truth
“I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.”
“There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.”
“The older you get, the more you learn to see what you've been taught to see. When you're a kid, you see what's there.”